(CNSNews.com) - Unfunded health care liabilities such as Medicare pose a threat to the fiscal survival of the country and will make the current recession pale in comparison if they are not quickly addressed, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said.
The Rhode Island Democrat, an advocate of President Obama’s health care reform plan, took part in a discussion on health information technology at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

In this Feb. 23, 2009, file photo, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., right, talks with Vice President Joe Biden, in the East Room of the White House in Washington after President Barack Obama made remarks to open the Fiscal Responsibility Summit. Specter, announced, Tuesday, April 28, 2009, that he is switching from the Republican to Democratic party. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

(CNSNews.com) - President Obama’s plan to pay for health care reform by creating efficiencies in the nation’s medical system will not result in government-mandated health care-rationing, said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who is co-leading the Democrats’ effort in the Senate to reform health care,.
He spoke with CNSNews.com at a breakfast for the media at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington early Friday.

(CNSNews.com) - Setting up a truth commission to investigate the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the Central Intelligence Agency under the Bush administration, as some members of Congress are advocating, could have a “chilling effect” on government personnel whose duty it is to protect our nation, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday.

(CNSNews.com) - Congressional Republicans who spoke with CNSNews.com on Thursday expressed concern that illegal immigrants who will be counted in the 2010 census could distort the apportionment of congressional districts.